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Free Community Education Series Offered the Third Wednesday of Every Other Month in 2020

Lindner Center of HOPE, with support from Manor House, will host its June session of its free community education series. The session, scheduled for June 17, 2020, will be presented by Nicole Bosse, PsyD and Jennifer Wilcox, PsyD, from Lindner Center of HOPE, on the topic of What is OCD and How Is It Treated?

This session will cover a basic definition of what OCD is and what it is not, the various types of OCD symptoms/presentation and treatment options for OCD.

The series is held at Manor House, 7440 Mason-Montgomery Rd., Mason at 6 p.m. the third Wednesday of every other month. View the entire 2020 schedule at lindnercenterofhope.org/education.

Register online. Call Pricila Gran at 513-536-0318 with questions. Learn more by visiting lindnercenterofhope.org/education.

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Addressing Mental Health for Leaders

Wednesday, April 22, 2020 • 8:00-9:30 am
Register Today: https://tinyurl.com/tex5og6

In this time of uncertainty, anxiety and mental health issues are becoming more commonplace than ever. Yet, many of us do not address our own issues, primarily due to not knowing where to turn.

Join us for an insightful webinar with some of Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky thought leaders as they take the mask off of mental illness. Hear their personal stories, challenges, impacts on their businesses, lessons learned, and how they found and give hope and inspiration.

Mental Health Webinar 2020 flyer

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Lindner Center of HOPE (LCOH) is making patients aware of a recent data security incident.  LCOH’s IT provider discovered that someone accessed the email account of one of our employees without authorization. Upon learning of the incident, the account was promptly secured to prevent further access. A forensic security firm was also retained to investigate and confirm security of our email and computer systems. The compromise was limited to one LCOH email account, which operates outside of and separate from our electronic medical record systems.  The LCOH electronic medical record system was not breached.

A forensic investigation revealed that the unauthorized access lasted only a few hours on July 12, 2019, and at this point, we are not aware of any fraud or identity theft to any individual as a result of this incident. We also do not know if any personal information was ever actually viewed or acquired by the unauthorized party. Nevertheless, as part of its investigation, the IT vendor searched for any personal information in the email account that could have been viewed, and on January 13, 2020, it advised us that the account contained some personal information, including dates of service, provider names, and diagnostic, treatment, surgical and/or prescription information.  A few individuals’ Social Security number or driver’s license number were also found in the account.

To help prevent something like this from happening in the future, we worked with our IT vendor to reset employee passwords, limit external email access, block access to malicious sites and IP addresses identified through the investigation of this incident, increase monitoring of network activity, add additional authentication measures for remote email access, and we continue to educate users on email security.

We have no indication that any patient information was actually viewed by the unauthorized person, or that it has been misused.  However, out of an abundance of caution, we began mailing letters to affected patients on March 13, 2020.  We recommend that our patients review any statements they receive from their healthcare providers and health insurers. If you see any services that you did not receive, please contact the provider or insurer immediately.  For eligible patients whose Social Security number or driver’s license number was found in the email accounts, we are offering complimentary credit monitoring and identity protection services.

We deeply regret any inconvenience or concern this incident may cause.  We have established a dedicated call center for patients to call with questions. If any patients have questions about this incident, please call 1-877-728-0077, Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Eastern Time.

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Please note this has been canceled.

High Hopes Auxiliary, (an organization of caring volunteers serving Lindner Center of HOPE) will host “HOPE Is Blooming” on Tuesday, April 28 at Kenwood Country Club. The fundraising event will benefit Lindner Center of HOPE. Guest speaker, Nyna Giles, will serve as the keynote speaker. Giles, author of The Bridesmaid’s Daughter will share her search for understanding her mother’s misdiagnosed mental illness and her survival living with mental illness.

In her book, Ms. Giles opens up about her life as the youngest daughter of Carolyn Scott Reybold, a Ford model best known as one of Grace Kelly’s bridesmaids, whose life was derailed by untreated mental illness.  She has since traveled the globe to share her story, revealing the challenges brought on by her mother’s untreated mental illness and her own lost childhood and education.

Proceeds from the event will benefit a replication clinical trial aimed at preventing teen suicides.  Suicide is one of the leading causes of death among children and young adults in the United States. Lindner Center of HOPE will participate in this groundbreaking clinical research trial to study adolescent suicide prevention implementing a “Youth Nominated Support Team” (YST).

The April 28th event will include a silent auction and raffle, beginning at 10:30 a.m. with lunch and program at 12:00 p.m. The Bridesmaid’s Daughter will be available for purchase at the event, where Nyna Giles will be available for signing.

TO REGISTER for the event go to: www.myhighhopes.com. Tickets are $75 per individual, or $750 for a patron table of 10. Sponsorships are also available by visiting the website.

For more information, please contact Co-chairs: Blake Gustafson at: [email protected] or Amy Russert at: [email protected]

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Mason, OH –Lindner Center of HOPE’s eleventh annual Touchdown for HOPE Super Bowl Sunday event at the Great American Ballpark Champions Club raised $195,000 for patient assistance. Approximately 250 people attended the event. This year Jim Breech, former Bengals star kicker, and his wife, Denise, were honorary hosts.

Proceeds from Touchdown for HOPE sponsorships and ticket sales will be used to fund a mental health services financial assistance program at Lindner Center of HOPE, benefitting our community’s first responders.

Community first responders (brave individuals who have specialized life-saving training) are among the first to arrive and provide assistance at the scene of an emergency, such as an accident, natural disaster, or terrorist attack.  These incidents are unfortunately all too frequent.  Fire fighters, paramedics, emergency medical technicians, law enforcement officials and other first responders experience incredible stress, while witnessing tragedies on a nearly unimaginable basis. When these heroes encounter traumatic experiences such as these, it often leaves them feeling as if no one else could possibly understand what they are going through besides their peers. They often don’t turn to experts to help them deal with mental health issues.

Touchdown for HOPE is a classy and fun Super Bowl party with big screen televisions, plush seating, and signature Cincinnati food favorites and other upscale tailgate-style treats. All taking place in a sports fan’s dream location –overlooking the baseball field.

A generous list of sponsors makes this event possible.

Photos:

– (l-r) Mary Alexander, Lindner Center of HOPE, Director of Development and Touchdown for HOPE organizer; Jim Breech, former Bengals kicker and Touchdown for HOPE honorary host; Paul Keck, MD, Lindner Center of HOPE President and CEO and Tracey Skale, MD, Medical Director, Greater Cincinnati Behavioral Health Services

 

 

– Jack Geiger and Kay Geiger

 

– Jean Crawford and Alvin Crawford, MD

– Craig Lindner, Lindner Center of HOPE Board Chair; Greg Joseph and Bill Butler, Lindner Center of HOPE Board Member

 

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This free movie night is intended to honor Eating Disorders Awareness Week

Lindner Center of HOPE’s Harold C. Schott Foundation Eating Disorders Program is hosting An Evening of Self-Compassion and Vulnerability in honor of Eating Disorders Awareness Week through a free movie night. The movie night will take place Thursday, February 27, 2020 from 6 to 8pm in Lindner Center of HOPE’s gymnasium/conference center.

This is the fourth annual movie night hosted at Lindner Center of HOPE in honor of Eating Disorders Awareness Week (February 24-March 1, 2020). Attendees will watch two TED Talks by well-respected and inspiring professionals in the mental health field, Kristin Neff, PhD, and Brené Brown, Ph.D., LMSW. Lindner Center of HOPE clinical staff will follow each video leading reflection and discussion on transforming lives to include more courage and self-compassion.

Doors open at 6pm, with the first video beginning at 6:30pm. A light dinner will be served. Seating is limited so RSVP is required online at tinyurl.com/lcohfreemovienight. Registration closes on February 20th.

Lindner Center of HOPE in Mason is a comprehensive mental health center providing excellent, patient-centered, scientifically-advanced care for individuals suffering with mental illness. A state-of-the-science, mental health center and charter member of the National Network of Depression Centers, the Center provides psychiatric hospitalization and partial hospitalization for individuals age 12-years-old and older, outpatient services for all ages, diagnostic services for all ages and short-term residential services for adults, outpatient services for substance abuse through HOPE Center North location and co-occurring disorders for adults and research. The Center is enhanced by its partnership with UC Health as its clinicians are ranked among the best providers locally, nationally and internationally. Together Lindner Center of HOPE and UC Health offer a true system of mental health care in the Greater Cincinnati area and across the country. The Center is also affiliated with the University of Cincinnati (UC) College of Medicine.

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Narrative Medicine is designed to help providers think about patient’s unique stories and not their disease.

Lindner Center of HOPE is hosting a training for providers and caregivers to learn how a patient’s story of their illness provides unique insights for treating and caring for them.

Narrative Medicine:  Creating More Therapeutic Clinical Encounters will be presented by Shana Feibel, DO, Lindner Center of HOPE, on February 22, 2020 from 11:30 to 3 pm at Lindner Center of HOPE, 4075 Old Western Row Rd., Mason, Ohio. The training is $20 and includes a light lunch and 3 CEUs.

Upon completion of the workshop the participants should be able to describe the principles behind and the value of narrative medicine as a complement to clinical medical

Education, practice a narrative medicine workshop to help recognize the value of understanding differing viewpoints and perspectives and reflect on the emotions that others are struggling with to better understand the humanity in ourselves and in our patients.

Narrative Medicine is a particular way of thinking about a patient’s narrative as they reveal the story of their illness. The focus is on individuals and their unique stories, not their disease, and on our shared emotions and attitudes and, ultimately, on gaining insight into what makes us human.

Before Dr. Feibel attended medical school and a psychiatry residency, she graduated with an M.A. in Film History and an M.F.A. in Screenwriting from The U.C.L.A. School of Theater, Film and Television. She is a published author, filmmaker and an award-winning screenwriter. In 2017, she became one of the first graduates of the on-line Graduate Professional Certificate Program in Narrative Medicine from Columbia University, where modern Narrative Medicine began. She has given Narrative Medicine workshops across the country. In June, 2019, she spoke about Narrative Medicine at The CHCI Health and Medical Humanities Summer Institute in Paris, France.

Register at: lindnercenterofhope.org/narrative-medicine/ by February 14.

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Lindner Center of HOPE Doctors Among Best in Nation
Ranking Places Five Lindner Center Doctors at the Top Locally

The Frances and Craig Lindner Center of HOPE is pleased to announce the following doctors were ranked among the best doctors in the nation and among the top specialists in the Tri-State as indicated by The Best Doctors in America 2019-2020 database. As selected by their peers, 459 specialists from the Tristate were included in the listing published in Cincy Magazine’s December 2019/January 2020 issue:

Leah Casuto, M.D., For more than 20 years Dr. Casuto has practiced psychiatry. In addition to serving patients and families in treatment settings, she has also served as a researcher and teacher in the field. She has extensive experience in community mental health serving as a staff psychiatrist for a number of facilities in Greater Cincinnati.
Brian P. Dowling, M.D., a highly regarded psychiatrist in the Cincinnati area, who focuses on maximizing time with his patients in order to truly understand their individual stories attempting to offer them hope and a sense of possibility. Dr. Dowling is the Director of Medical Education at Lindner Center of HOPE.
Paul E. Keck, Jr., M.D., President-CEO, Lindner Center of HOPE, is a nationally renowned psychiatrist and researcher in Bipolar Disorder and psychopharmacology. He authored over 525 scientific papers in leading journals and was the 7th most cited scientist in the world published in the fields of psychiatry and psychology over the last decade.
Susan L. McElroy, M.D., A nationally recognized researcher and educator, Dr. McElroy is internationally known for her research in bipolar disorder, eating disorders, obesity, impulse control disorders and pharmacology. As Chief Research Officer for the Lindner Center of HOPE, she currently oversees multiple ongoing studies in bipolar disorder, major depression, binge eating disorder and obsessive compulsive disorder.
Marie E. Rueve, M.D., possesses not only an extensive background in psychopharmacology but also expertise in psychotherapy and a love of teaching. Her treatment philosophy centers on walking with patients through a comprehensive understanding of their illness and context, on to holistic, multi-disciplinary treatment approaches aimed at helping them live fulfilling and functional lives.  Her expertise in leading diagnostic and treatment teams, especially in patients with complex co-morbidities.

Lindner Center of HOPE in Mason is a comprehensive mental health center providing excellent, patient-centered, scientifically-advanced care for individuals suffering with mental illness. A state-of-the-science, mental health center and charter member of the National Network of Depression Centers, the Center provides psychiatric hospitalization and partial hospitalization for individuals age 12-years-old and older, outpatient services for all ages, diagnostic and short-term residential services for adults and adolescents, outpatient services for substance abuse through HOPE Center North location and co-occurring disorders for adults and research. The Center is enhanced by its partnership with UC Health as its clinicians are ranked among the best providers locally, nationally and internationally. Together Lindner Center of HOPE and UC Health offer a true system of mental health care in the Greater Cincinnati area and across the country. The Center is also affiliated with the University of Cincinnati (UC) College of Medicine.

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Lindner Center of HOPE Doctors Included on Top List
Ranking Places Two Lindner Center Doctors on Cincinnati Magazine List

The Frances and Craig Lindner Center of HOPE is pleased to announce the following doctors were listed among the top doctors on Cincinnati Magazine’s 2020 list. The doctors who make the list are active physicians in Hamilton, Butler, Warren, and Clermont counties in Ohio; Boone, Kenton and Campbell counties in Kentucky; and Dearborn County in Indiana and were selected by their peers in a survey asking which physicians they’d turn to for care.

Tracy Suzanne Cummings, M.D., Chief of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Lindner Center of HOPE, Medical Director of Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center Inpatient and Partial Hospital Program at Lindner Center of HOPE
Danielle J. Johnson, M.D., FAPA, Lindner Center of HOPE Chief Medical Officer, founder of the Women’s Mental Health Program at Lindner Center of HOPE and staff psychiatrist.

Lindner Center of HOPE in Mason is a comprehensive mental health center providing excellent, patient-centered, scientifically-advanced care for individuals suffering with mental illness. A state-of-the-science, mental health center and charter member of the National Network of Depression Centers, the Center provides psychiatric hospitalization and partial hospitalization for individuals age 12-years-old and older, outpatient services for all ages, diagnostic services for all ages and short-term residential services for adults, outpatient services for substance abuse through HOPE Center North location and co-occurring disorders for adults and research. The Center is enhanced by its partnership with UC Health as its clinicians are ranked among the best providers locally, nationally and internationally. Together Lindner Center of HOPE and UC Health offer a true system of mental health care in the Greater Cincinnati area and across the country. The Center is also affiliated with the University of Cincinnati (UC) College of Medicine.

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Quarterly free webcasts offer one free continuing education credit per session

Lindner Center of HOPE has released the 2020 schedule for their Free Webcast Series. The series will cover a variety of topics chosen to increase understanding of mental health and addiction diagnosis and treatment.

The first session in 2020 of the free series is February 11, 2020. Chris Tuell, Lindner Center of HOPE, EdD, LPCC-S, LICDC-CS, Lindner Center of HOPE , Clinical Director of Addiction Services, will present Screentime – When is it too much?

This session will cover understanding internet use disorder, the relationship between internet use disorder and mental illness, and the role of the addictive brain in the relationship to internet use disorder. Visit https://lindnercenterofhope.org/screentime-webcast/  for more information and to register.

The series is offered quarterly. Login opens at 5pm with presentation from 5:30 -6:30. Other topics for the series include:

Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) vs Radically Open Dialectical Behavior Therapy (RO DBT)

presented by Brett Dowdy, PsyD, Lindner Center of HOPE, Chief of Psychological Services, and Laurie Little, PsyD, Director of Therapeutic Services, Sibcy House – Tuesday, May 12, 2020

Visit https://lindnercenterofhope.org/dbtvsrodbt-webcast/ for more information and to register.

  Residential Stabilization, Diagnostic Assessment and Treatment to Optimize Patient Outcomes presented by William P. Hartmann III, MD FAPA, Medical Director, Williams House at Lindner Center of HOPE – Tuesday, August 11, 2020

Visit https://lindnercenterofhope.org/residential-stabilization-webcast/ for more information and to register.

 OCD’s 10 biggest tricks and how to defeat them presented by Charles Brady, PhD, ABPP, Lindner Center of HOPE, Clinical Director of Outpatient Services and Staff Psychologist  – Tuesday, October 6, 2020

Visit https://lindnercenterofhope.org/ocd-tricks-webcast/ for more information and to register.